Suspicious fire guts Nacogdoches mobile home, couple loses everything

Authorities in Nacogdoches
are investigating the cause of a suspicious fire that destroyed mobile home Tuesday
afternoon.

David and Linda Yates
rented the mobile home at South Meadows Mobile Home Village on Warr Street.

They lost everything.
They escaped injuries by running out the back door with their dog.

They suspect a neighbor started the fire by
throwing something flammable on the front porch.

"They had come by and
asked if I wanted to buy some drugs, and I told him no and then whenever he
left, I went into the tub and that's when it all went up," David Yates said. "My
wife, well she was fixing to get up and make a pot of tea and whenever she got
she heard popping. She opened the door. Whenever she opened the door our front
porch was already gone."

Witnesses say the
neighbor was cuffed and placed in a police car.

Fire officer Robert
Ford said the man was causing a disturbance, but no one has been arrested at
this time.

Ford said the cause
of the fire is undetermined and it remains under investigation.

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